CHRISTMAS MINION NAILS - DESPICABLE ME 2 inspired

Aren't minions just so cute, but they are more adorable with Santa hats on. t's the holiday season and Xmas themed minions are the perfect design to have on your nails this season! I used a total of 7 polishes, striping tape, a black nail polish striped and dotting tools to create these Santa minions. Here's a list of all the items I used in case you want to try these out your self. If you do, please share it with me, I'd love to see! (@glamified92 on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Google plus, or youtube)

List of items I used: (remember, you can always change up the polishes to what you  already have)

Step 1: paint all nails yellow

•Yellow polish - Sally Hansen Xtreme wear Mellow Yellow. I applied this polish as the base color for all my nails. It will represent the minion's skin. It did require 2-3 coats for the color to completely show. You will need for this to dry completely before going to the next step. 

Step 2: place two pieces of striping tape in each nail. Place one on the top 1/3 of the nail, and the other one at the bottom 1/3. These will basically serve as stencils for the next step. I got my striping tape from amazon.

Step 3: paint the minion's hat and pants

•Sally Hansen Insta dry Blue Bye- use this blue polish to paint below where you placed the lower striping tape. This will be the minion's pants.

•Sally Hansen hard as nails Tough Love- this is the red polish. Use this to paint above the top striping tape and this will be the mionion's Santa hat. 

Remove the striping tapes.

•use the white polish (Sally Hansen insta dry white on) and use a doting tool to paint white dots below the red to finish the hat. 

Step 4: Paint the minions eyes and mouth. 

•phantom fright 2 way nail art brush and pen in black- I used the striped part to make a horizontal line in the center of the nail. This will be the minions eyeglass strap.

•Sally Hansen Instadry silver sweep- use this with a large sized dotting tool and make a dot in the center where you made the black stripe. 

•Sally Hansen Xtreme wear white on- now use a smaller sized doting tool whith this white polish to make a dot over the grey. 

•finally use the black polish from the black stripe on a dotting tool and make a small dot over the silver and white silvers. This will be the eye pupil and will complete the eye. 

•sinful colors hottie- this is a blue glitter topcoat. I used this over the blue to add shine to the minion's pants. 

To see a video of this design check out my channel youtube.com/glamified92.

Happy holiday, 

Glamified92